Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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I recently found this post of Seth Godin’s through my blogging comrade Matt Wengerd. Matt recently switched his blog’s title from 104 weeks (originally named as such to chronicle his two year journey through the University of South Florida’s graduate music program), and he continues to write thought provoking content and find great links [...]

National Symphony bassist and doublebassblog.org contributor Jeff Weisner is writing a series of posts documenting his upcoming recital at Peabody.  All pieces for this recital were commissioned by Jeff.  You can check out the first two parts of this series through the following links:

Part I - Upcoming Recital
Part II - Dealing With Uncertainty

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Ira Gold, a member of the National Symphony bass section and a previous guest on the Contrabass Conversations podcast, is now on faculty at the Catholic University of America’s Benjamin T. Rome School of Music in Washington, D.C.
The school is accepting late applicants for Fall of ‘08. If interested, students can either view information [...]

This brief video demonstrates the way that I record phone interviews along with my own voice, a method that is stable and produces a good audio product. This is harder than you might imagine! A lot of experimentation occurred before arriving at this setup, which may seem wacky but is actually quite reliable. [...]

Chicago Symphony bassist and active blogger Michael Hovnanian just put out a post recounting a highly wacky gig that he played with other members of his orchestra.  This gig (on Good Friday) happened to land on the day of a freak snow storm here in Chicago, with the metro area receiving 6-12 inches of snow [...]

Reading Michael Hovanian’s recent blog story Bad Friday made me recall (for whatever reason) a tale that a Chicago Symphony bassist told me many years ago….
Sir Georg Solti, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s longtime music director, had a reputation for being fairly difficult to understand in rehearsal.  New orchestra musicians would often gaze quizzically at him [...]

Classicalmusicnews.tv blogger and Contrabass Conversations co-host John Grillo continues his series ‘The Musical Universe’ with this second installment on his blog:
First came time! This is the second installment in my blog series “The Musical Universe.”  The first installment covered pitches emanating from black holes. This second installment will discuss the rhythm of our own Sun.  [...]

Here’s another video from Bad Boyz of Bass member and Contrabass Conversations guest Volkan Orhon. Volkan includes the following information about this video:
This is a live performance of Richard Strauss’ Morgen for soprano, doublebass and piano. It was performed at the Benefit Concert for the September 11th Terrorist Attack Victims. Sara Metcalfe, soprano [...]

Now this is a great gig story!  Calgary Philharmonic bassist Matt Heller (formerly a member of the New World Symphony) recently found himself chasing down a bus, circling around downtown Calgary, all for a water canteen.  Check it out here.

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